Department of Justice federal obligations in North Carolina
The Department of Justice has $1,166,625,307.75 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to North Carolina across 2,602 awards. Awarding-agency 015 joined to North Carolina place of performance produces that cell. It is not a crime-rate score and not a prison census. Obligations are not outlays.
Key figures
- DOJ (agency 015) shows $1,166,625,307.75 in USAspending obligations in North Carolina.
- Award count is 2,602; implied mean about $448,357.
- The join is not a crime-rate or prison census.
- Totals are obligations, not outlays.
Justice awards tagged to North Carolina
This page is a join of two USAspending.gov fields: awarding agency Department of Justice (code 015) and place-of-performance North Carolina. The extract sums to $1,166,625,307.75 on 2,602 awards. Those facts describe a coding intersection. They do not show that Department of Justice spending caused North Carolina outcomes, or that North Carolina caused the federal award book.
The pair is not a North Carolina crime ranking or a count of federal inmates. Correlation of an agency label with a state code is not causation. Place-of-performance can follow a U.S. Attorney’s office, a detention site, a grant recipient, or a contractor. Work tagged to North Carolina can involve parties elsewhere, and North Carolina work can be coded to another state.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports, state court caseloads, and prison-population surveys are other series. Mixing any of those series with $1,166,625,307.75 leaves the USAspending award file. The 2,602 figure counts award records, including modifications present in the extract, not unique people, firms, or facilities.
Twenty-six hundred rows under $1.17 billion
Two thousand six hundred two awards under a $1.17 billion book is a midsize justice tape. Dividing $1,166,625,307.75 by 2,602 awards yields an implied mean near $448,357. That quotient is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical award size and not a median. A few large vehicles can pull the average while many smaller rows sit below it.
Volume and dollars are different columns. Cite both 2,602 and $1,166,625,307.75. USAspending.gov is the source. SpendingVault does not recast $448,357 as a product schedule or a beneficiary payment.
Later ingests can revise $1,166,625,307.75 and 2,602. This prose is a packet snapshot. The overlay is the live table. If those two disagree, use the overlay. Keep the obligation label so the cell is not read as cash already paid in North Carolina.
North Carolina statewide versus DOJ nationwide
North Carolina’s all-agency hub stacks every awarding agency with performance coded to the state. $1,166,625,307.75 is only the Department of Justice cell inside North Carolina. The Department of Justice national hub includes every state. This tie is the overlap, nothing more.
State budget documents in North Carolina answer a different question. They are not the source of the 2,602 federal award records. If a chart mixes a General Fund table with this cell, the chart has left the USAspending.gov series.
Eastern, Middle, and Western District offices can all attract Justice tags without proving that every dollar of $1,166,625,307.75 was spent in those cities. This packet does not split bureaus. Do not rank North Carolina as more or less safe because the cell appears next to the state code.
Commitments on justice awards
An obligation records a legal commitment on an award. An outlay records cash leaving the Treasury. $1,166,625,307.75 is the first series. Using it as a proxy for checks already issued in North Carolina will misstate timing. SpendingVault does not convert this cell into cash.
Multi-year vehicles can remain open after the obligation posts. Cite the pair as agency 015 × North Carolina, $1,166,625,307.75, 2,602 awards, obligations only.
Overlay, state hub, and agency hub
The North Carolina × Department of Justice overlay holds the structured rows behind 2,602 awards and $1,166,625,307.75. The North Carolina state page and the Department of Justice agency page are the parents. The ties index lists other state–agency pairs on the same obligation basis.
Those views do not add a program-code mix or a unique-recipient count this packet omits. They also do not convert $1,166,625,307.75 into outlays.
How to cite DOJ in North Carolina
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (awarding agency 015) obligated $1,166,625,307.75 on 2,602 awards coded to North Carolina. Keep both sides of the join. Do not drop North Carolina and call the figure a national DOJ total. Do not drop Department of Justice and call it North Carolina’s entire federal book.
The implied mean near $448,357 remains a ratio of two packet facts. Place-of-performance is a coding field, not a complete map of North Carolina subcontractors. Do not convert the North Carolina DOJ cell into a safety ranking.
Questions
- How much Department of Justice spending is in North Carolina?
- USAspending.gov shows $1,166,625,307.75 in Department of Justice obligations coded to North Carolina across 2,602 awards. Awarding-agency 015 and North Carolina place of performance define the join. The total is obligations, not outlays.
- Does this total measure crime in North Carolina?
- No. $1,166,625,307.75 and 2,602 awards are award-file coding totals. They are not crime counts, conviction counts, or a safety ranking. Correlation between Justice awards and a state code is not causation.
- What is the average DOJ award in North Carolina?
- The implied mean is about $448,357 from $1,166,625,307.75 divided by 2,602 awards. Bureau and program splits are not in this packet. The mean is not a typical grant size.
- Are DOJ obligations in North Carolina the same as outlays?
- No. $1,166,625,307.75 is an obligation sum on 2,602 awards. Outlays are cash leaving the Treasury and can lag. SpendingVault does not convert this North Carolina × DOJ cell into cash.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.